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which kills the AP's internet. I searched google and compared the command I'm using and it matches other codes so I don't think it's a typo in the command or something. h'mm any more ideas I can try with this setup?

Re: Make backtrack as an AP

which kills the AP's internet. I searched google and compared the command I'm using and it matches other codes so I don't think it's a typo in the command or something. h'mm any more ideas I can try with this setup?

After you insert this command, you should run sslstrip. sslstrip listens on port 10000 by default. Since you are now redirecting connections to port 80 to port 10000, if nothing is listening on port 10000 then your wireless clients won't be able to get anywhere.

Re: Make backtrack as an AP

@ shadowzero, thanks very much for the tip. That fixed the issue and now I got the AP and sslstrip playing nice together.
@ M00kaw and hhmatt thank you for your support.

Since I was having problems with this setup I searched for another way to create an AP with airbase-ng and came across a tutorial on securitytube (Wireless Lan Security Megaprimer Part 12: Man-In-The-Middle Attack) which uses a different method and also uses burp suite which looks pretty cool.

I tried to get it work on BT5 gnome 32bit and I'm running into an error: